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Meet Chris:

One of Our In-Person Animal Protectors

Ever wondered what it’s actually like to stand up for animals in person? Hear from Chris on why he shows up, again and again.

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Behind every protest, banner drop, and voice raised, there are people like Chris.

Here’s what he told us about why he keeps showing up for animals.

I join Animal Equality actions to help end factory farming and build a world where all animals are respected and protected.

Demonstrations held by Animal Equality in Edinburgh to oppose Scottish salmon farming have been loud!

I had the chance to join forces with campaigners at the Scottish Parliament to speak up for salmon in a way that my representatives could not ignore.

Chris, Animal Protector

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Chris fights against one of the least talked-about, and least visible, forms of farmed animal exploitation in the UK: the cruel salmon industry.

The brutal salmon industry traps sensitive migratory fish in cramped, filthy cages, subjecting them to lives of unbearable suffering. Farmed salmon are wounded, diseased, and eaten alive by sea lice.

Salmon farming’s collateral cruelty also abuses lumpfish and wrasse, treating these fish as dispensable ‘cleaner fish’ machines.

Yet even more fish, such as anchovies, herring, and mackerel, are killed to feed farmed salmon. We expose the horrific truth of the salmon scandal lurking in Scotland’s sea lochs.

Hidden behind misleading labels and enhanced colouring are salmon factories that harm the environment, wild salmon populations, and Scotland’s world-renowned reputation as a nation of warmth and hospitality.

We speak truth to power at the Scottish Parliament, pressuring decision-makers to act and end the Scottish salmon crisis.

Chris, Animal Protector

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Disease. Sea lice. The suffering of salmon in these farms is well documented. The industry’s answer is to expand anyway.

We say: no way.

In the UK, up to 77 million fish are farmed and killed each year – that’s approximately 210,959 per day.

There is an abundance of scientific evidence highlighting that farmed fish and other aquatic animals have an ability to feel joy and to feel pain.

Despite this knowledge, fish are currently facing extreme suffering due to a lack of specific, meaningful protections in law.

Combined with a complete lack of regulatory oversight of farmed fish abattoirs, the aquaculture industry is being left to monitor itself in the eyes of the law.

The UK Government has a duty of care to farmed fish used by the UK aquaculture industry. It is critical to ensure that laws are put in place, compliance is maintained, and those failing to meet legal standards are penalised accordingly.

Therefore, we, the undersigned, are calling on the UK Government to implement the following as a matter of priority:

  • Fish must receive species-specific, meaningful provisions in the Welfare At Time Of Killing (WATOK) regulations, which currently only offers these detailed protections for farmed land animals
  • Consistency measures must be put in place, where a certain rate of failure in any welfare metric triggers machinery halt, requires summoning of a vet, and provokes an official inspection of the facility by a government official / neutral third-party
  • Fish slaughterhouses across Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland must be subject to regular announced and unannounced inspections to take place annually
  • Fish must receive ante-mortem welfare inspections from the relevant bodies in each country of the UK
  • CCTV must be a mandatory requirement in fish slaughterhouses, with monitoring from public bodies
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